Callaway Launches New Elyte Series of Clubs for 2025

What's at the core of Elyte?

With Callaway’s launch of the Elyte series, their designers have put a greater focus on how segmenting clubs within the product line can help golfers find a performance advantage. This is made possible with the help of artificial intelligence and the evergrowing database they can draw from to create differentiation.

Core Design Features and Technologies

New faster shape

To help golfers gain speed, the geometry of the entire driver series has been adjusted to increase aerodynamic efficiency — this new shape also helps increase MOI to boost forgiveness.

New Ai10X face design

Building off of Paradym Ai Smoke, Callaway engineers were able to input 10 times more user data to help their AI models optimize the face geometry to further reduce spin variation and dispersion on shots hit around the face.

New crown materials

By drawing inspiration from the aerospace industry, engineers are using a new Thermoforged carbon to replace more titanium in the crown of the drivers. This creates better weight distribution leading to more mass movement in the heads.

A particular benefactor is the core model Elyte head which features external weight adjustments for the first time in a Callaway driver.

Fairway wood speed wave

Rather than placing tungsten directly into the sole of the club, engineers created a bridge within the head to place the dense material close to the face. This allows greater flexibility on the sole to help with low face strikes

Step Sole

Another design feature of the fairway woods is a stepped sole to reduce turn interaction. This helps prevent the club from bouncing into the ball and Callaway’s testing showed a huge reduction in lower face strikes.

Callaway Elyte Driver and Fairway Wood Models

Elyte

The core model of Callaway’s Elyte series offers 3-way weight adjustability in the driver to control bias and hosel adjustability to fine tune ball flight and spin. These models will fit the largest group of players.

Driver $600 / Fairway wood $350

Elyte X

For golfers looking to reduce a fade, the X driver features neutral and draw-biased adjustable weighting, while the shallower fairway woods provide extra confidence. It will also spin a bit more than the core to potentially help with carry distance and dispersion.

Driver $600 / Fairway wood $350

Elyte Triple Diamond

Designed for players on the fastest end of the club head speed spectrum, the triple diamond models offer workability, a smaller neutral to fade bias shape, and low spin performance.

Driver $650 / Fairway wood $350

Elyte Max Fast

For moderate swing speed golfers looking to gain back speed, the Max Fast offers a lightweight package, without sacrificing the option for neutral and draw bias adjustable weighting in the driver—just like the Elyte X model.

To optimize weight placement, the Max Fast fairway woods don’t offer hosel adjustability.

Driver $600 / Fairway wood $350

Bonus fairway wood: Elyte Titanium

As a sneaky little extra, Callaway is also releasing a new Titanium fairway. Usually reserved for their premium game improvement lines, this titanium option is intended for faster players looking for extra workability and low spin performance. It combines the profile of the standard model with the deeper face of the Triple Diamond.

Fairway Wood $450

Elyte Hybrids and Irons

For the first time in a Callaway core line up, the Elyte hybrids feature adjustable heel and toe weighting to help fitters and golfers fine tune ball flight bias. This complements the adjustable hosels that tune launch, spin, and lie angle for an ultra-customizable fit.

Much like the fairway woods, the Elyte hybrids will feature three distinct models to help fit each golf into the right clubs to maximize performance. The core model is designed to fit a majority of golfers, the X to help golfers needing more draw bias, and the Max Fast offers a shallower profile to increase launch. It is noteworthy to mention that the Max Fast hybrids offer an adjustable hosel, unlike the fairway woods, since speed is less of a factor when dealing with shorter clubs.

All of the Callaway Elyte Hybrids are priced at $300 per club.

Now for the irons.

Similar to the drivers and fairway woods in this series, Callaway’s Elyte irons are broken up into four models—which if we were looking at it from a pure consumer perspective might be a bit overkill, but we’ll leave that up to golfers and fitters to decide at the end of the day. It’s merely the job of Callaway designers to offer options, and with more options comes greater segmentation to help golfers find the ideal fit.

Beyond the Ai10X face to help normalize mishits, one of the biggest refinements in the Elyte series irons from the Paradym is the sole design which offers more camber (front-to-back roundness) to make them more efficient through the turf.

Callaway Elyte Iron Models

Elyte

The core model of the Elyte iron series is a bit of a chameleon because it offers tons of game improvement features but in a midsized package.

Elyte X

For players needing added forgiveness and to increase height and stopping power the X model offers a wider sole and more offset to get the ball up in the air. A thicker topline also provides increased confidence.

Elyte HL

Designed for those needing extra spin, the Elyte HL irons offer a shallow profile and wider sole to go along with weaker lofts to help generate more spin and a high peak ball flight.

Elyte Max Fast

Built on a similar platform as the HL, the Max Fast irons are built to help moderate swing speed golfers gain back speed by offering an overall lighter weight package featuring ultra-lightweight graphite shafts and even light weight grips.

All irons are priced at $900 ($150 each) for a 6-piece set in steel, and $1000 ($167 each) for a 6-piece set in graphite.

The entire Callaway Elyte series will be available for pre-order starting on January 17th and will be in golf shops starting on January 24th for the drivers and fairway woods (the exception being the Elyte Titanium arrives February 21) and February 7th for hybrids and irons.